State garden is remade and ready for visitors

The remade South Carolina Botanical Garden is emerging from a devastating storm last year

Kathy Bridges, left, landscape manager, and John Bodiford, manager, both with the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson, walk across a 60-foot bridge on the garden trail, flooded a year ago.

Ken Ruinard

Architecture Studio Students cross one of eight new bridges in the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson. A "787-year storm," July 2013, unloaded eight inches in four hours, 102 million gallons of rain over the 400 acre watershed.

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Brittany Cohen, William Craig, and Nicole Nguyen, of the Clemson University Architecture Studio group, look at one of the many signs which help visitors find their way around.

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John Bodiford, manager of the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson, looks at a struggling Red Oak tree from a location where last year's flooding damaged the trail.

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Brittany Cohen, Nicole Nguyen, and William Craig, of the Clemson University Architecture Studio group, walk across a 60-foot bridge on the garden trail, one of eight bridges made after the lower trail flooded a year ago at the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson.

Ken Ruinard

William Craig, an architecture studio student, turns a crank on a steel art sculpture during a demonstration at the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson. The demonstration, showing how water flows down a lower trail at the garden. A "787-year storm," July 2013, unloaded eight inches in four hours, 102 million gallons of rain over the 400 acre watershed.

Ken Ruinard

Kathy Bridges, South Carolina Botanical Garden landscape manager, looks at replanted ground cover on the trail in Clemson, where heavy rain damaged it a year ago.

Ken Ruinard

Oconee Bell plants grow where a flood damaged a trail at the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson.